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What's the proper expression?
Worse comes to worse. 17%  17%  [ 5 ]
Worst comes to worst. 17%  17%  [ 5 ]
Worse comes to worst. 66%  66%  [ 19 ]
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A tough one for you verbologists.
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Worst comes to worst.

I think.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
Worst comes to worst.

I think.


that's what i voted.
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I always thought it was 'worse' increasing to 'worst', but apparently both are variations:

http://www.bartleby.com/68/2/3102.html

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I say worse comes to worst.

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"worst comes to worst" doesn't make any sense. if it's already the worst, how can it continue on to the worst again?
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Z Wrote:
"worst comes to worst" doesn't make any sense. if it's already the worst, how can it continue on to the worst again?


it's a statement about how something that was already really bad.....got really REALLY bad.
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I think it's worse that then comes to worst.
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I think it's worse that then comes to worst.


I think you are right.
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no one in this country enunciates enough to tell the dif.
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DayStar Wrote:
Z Wrote:
"worst comes to worst" doesn't make any sense. if it's already the worst, how can it continue on to the worst again?

it's a statement about how something that was already really bad.....got really REALLY bad.

yeah, i know what it means. and what i'm saying is that if people were to use language properly, they'd know that "worst" refers to the most severe or least desirable condition. and that is the ultimate. you can't say something is the worst twice. it's bad and it gets worse and then it finally becomes the worst. this is why it drives me fucking bonkers when people say things like "that was the funniest thing ever" six times in a day about six different things.
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ayah Wrote:
no one in this country enunciates enough to tell the dif.


i do!
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Now I've seen "worse" and "worst" so often that they don't even look like words anymore.

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worst comes to worst, my peoples come first... shit what song was that again? now i got in stuck in my head.

but i think it's "worst comes to worst."

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Now I've seen "worse" and "worst" so often that they don't even look like words anymore.

i love and hate when this happens. i spent twenty minutes saying "balloon" over and over one day to annoy someone and i had no idea what the word meant about ten minutes into it. it's like your mind is going crazy.
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I say worse comes to worst.


This was always what I understood to be correct.
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I've always said "worst comes to worst". I've never bothered to sit and think about exactly what is being said. People know what you mean either way.
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worst comes to worst, my peoples come first... shit what song was that again? now i got in stuck in my head.


this is driving me nuts now...

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I think you all made this up

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worst comes to worst, my peoples come first... shit what song was that again? now i got in stuck in my head.

but i think it's "worst comes to worst."


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pumachik Wrote:
worst comes to worst, my peoples come first... shit what song was that again? now i got in stuck in my head.

but i think it's "worst comes to worst."


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duh. i knew that. ;)

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Wurst Comes To Wurst.

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DumpJack Wrote:
I always thought it was 'worse' increasing to 'worst'
This makes the most sense, especially after reading Bartles' & James' explanation of what the idiom means.

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I don't remember ever using this phrase intentionally. I just say "worsens." Or "bad goes to worse"

"More worserer" might apply.
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